Dogs Playing Poker
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Dogs Playing Poker is the informal name for a series of oil paintings by American artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge created between 1894 and 1910. Most of the paintings depict dogs playing the card ga
Pinched with Four Aces (1903)
A Friend in Need (1903)
Poker Sympathy (1903)
Sitting up with a Sick Friend (c. 1905)
Kitsch
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Kitsch is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous, or of banal taste.
Dogs Playing Poker
…feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the United States as examples of kitsch art in home decoration. Depictions and reenactments of the series have appeared in many films, television shows, theater productions, and other popular…
Puppy by Jeff Koons (2010) is a self-aware display of kitsch, specifically as a combination of opulence and cuteness.
A mass-produced teapot and milk jug set, themed after a rural cottage
Abraj al Saat in Mecca has been described as kitsch.